Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd

Zurich / Banking and Finance / Syndicated Lending / Acquisition Finance / Investment Law / Insurance / Corporate and Commercial / Capital Markets

Anita Schläpfer is a partner in Schellenberg Wittmer’s Banking and Finance Group in Zurich. Her focus is on banking and finance law, finance transactions, asset/investment management, collective investment schemes, and financial services regulation. She specializes in advising Swiss and international financial institutions and corporate clients on the structuring, negotiation, and documentation of domestic and cross-border acquisition finance and syndicated-lending transactions, securitizations, and other finance transactions and corporate matters. She also assists clients with all questions in connection with asset/investment management, onshore and offshore collective investment schemes and other financial products, including licensing and distribution-related issues and provides regulatory and transactional advice for technology driven solutions and providers in the financial services industry (Fintech).

(2009) Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer - (2007) Associate at Schellenberg Wittmer - (2000) Associate in a Zurich business law firm

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Co-Chair of the Financial Products and Services Committee and Council member at the American Bar Association, Section of International Law until August 2017 President of the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) from September 2013 through August 2014

(2002) LL.M. in Banking and Securities Law, Columbia University - (2000) Bar Admission in Switzerland - (1997) lic. iur. HSG, University of St. Gallen